My initial thoughs on Undead Nightmare:
--In the first hour of the game there are so many good cutscenes it makes you cry. I love the voice acting in this game, and I adore the characters.
--The game's missions are fun. They're nothing extraordinary, just like the first Red Dead, but what makes the game so beautifully compelling is how they somehow make mundane aspects of a cowboy's life (like herding cows, lassoing people, breaking horses, patrolling farms, hunting treasure, collecting desert sage, etc...) so addictive.
--Snake Oil salesman askes me to collect him 5 desert sage, and all I could do was grin profusely. That brings me to my next point. So I love collecting desert sage. But the reason I loved doing it so much in the original single player and in free roam is because of the feeling of isolation in the majority of Red Dead's overworld. You're a lone cowboy, exploring a vast, deserted and beautiful landscape. I want that feeling of loneliness when playing this game. The single player has a myriad of NPC encounters, sure, but when you're hunting grizzly bears in Tall Trees, it's just your knife, the crickets chirping, the moonlight shining on your back, and the heavy footsteps of grizzly bears lurking in the shadow. When doing those mundane side quests there should just be your character and the beautiful wilderness and nothing else.
But in Undead Nightmare, there's zombies freaking everywhere. I can't sit down in between Armadillo and Hennigen's Stead and just calmly take in the sights, looking to skin a snake, or hunt a rabbit, or pick up a plant, etc...
Aside from that, I like all the new DLC in the game.
--In the first hour of the game there are so many good cutscenes it makes you cry. I love the voice acting in this game, and I adore the characters.
--The game's missions are fun. They're nothing extraordinary, just like the first Red Dead, but what makes the game so beautifully compelling is how they somehow make mundane aspects of a cowboy's life (like herding cows, lassoing people, breaking horses, patrolling farms, hunting treasure, collecting desert sage, etc...) so addictive.
--Snake Oil salesman askes me to collect him 5 desert sage, and all I could do was grin profusely. That brings me to my next point. So I love collecting desert sage. But the reason I loved doing it so much in the original single player and in free roam is because of the feeling of isolation in the majority of Red Dead's overworld. You're a lone cowboy, exploring a vast, deserted and beautiful landscape. I want that feeling of loneliness when playing this game. The single player has a myriad of NPC encounters, sure, but when you're hunting grizzly bears in Tall Trees, it's just your knife, the crickets chirping, the moonlight shining on your back, and the heavy footsteps of grizzly bears lurking in the shadow. When doing those mundane side quests there should just be your character and the beautiful wilderness and nothing else.
But in Undead Nightmare, there's zombies freaking everywhere. I can't sit down in between Armadillo and Hennigen's Stead and just calmly take in the sights, looking to skin a snake, or hunt a rabbit, or pick up a plant, etc...
Aside from that, I like all the new DLC in the game.
I am 100% going to get this, but im really not sure which version to get? 
